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1
being without light or without much light
- I didn't like walking around the murky campground without a flashlight
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- ablaze,
- agleam,
- aglitter,
- alight,
- beaming,
- beamy,
- effulgent,
- glaring,
- glowing,
- incandescent,
- lambent,
- radiant,
- relucent,
- resplendent,
- shining,
- sparkling
- floodlit
- (also floodlighted),
- highlighted,
- spotlighted
- (or spotlit)
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2
causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer
- the murky shadows of the cemetery
Synonyms for murky
- black,
- bleak,
- cheerless,
- chill,
- Cimmerian,
- cloudy,
- cold,
- comfortless,
- dark,
- darkening,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- dire,
- disconsolate,
- dismal,
- drear,
- dreary,
- dreich
- [chiefly Scottish],
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- godforsaken,
- gray
- (also grey),
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- morbid,
- morose,
- plutonian,
- saturnine,
- sepulchral,
- solemn,
- somber
- (or sombre),
- sullen,
- sunless,
- tenebrific,
- tenebrous,
- wretched
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- blue,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- down,
- droopy,
- hangdog,
- inconsolable,
- low,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- mirthless,
- sad,
- unhappy,
- woebegone,
- woeful
- dim,
- discomfiting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- dispiriting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- upsetting
- dour,
- grim,
- lowering
- (also louring),
- lowery
- (also loury),
- menacing,
- negative,
- oppressive,
- threatening
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3
filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension
- skies made murky from the smoke of forest fires that were many miles to the west
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4
having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning
- a murky reply to a question about his intentions
Synonyms for murky
- ambiguous,
- arcane,
- cryptic,
- dark,
- deep,
- Delphic,
- double-edged,
- elliptical
- (or elliptic),
- enigmatic
- (also enigmatical),
- equivocal,
- fuliginous,
- inscrutable,
- mysterious,
- mystic,
- nebulous,
- obscure,
- occult,
- opaque
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- beclouded,
- bedimmed,
- befogged,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- dim,
- faint,
- foggy,
- fuzzy,
- hazy,
- indistinct,
- indistinguishable,
- misty,
- muddy,
- obfuscatory,
- obnubilated,
- obscurant
- (or obscurantic),
- shaded,
- shadowlike,
- shadowy,
- sphinxlike
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5
not seen or understood clearly
- a gubernatorial candidate with a murky position on the hot-button issue of capital punishment
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“Murky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murky. Accessed 26 Sep. 2021.
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